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The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Seismic Intensity Scale [1] (known in Japan as the Shindo seismic scale) [2] is a seismic intensity scale used in Japan to categorize the intensity of local ground shaking caused by earthquakes. Map of Japan showing the distribution of maximum JMA Seismic Intensities by prefecture for the 2011 Tōhoku ...
A giant Ainu monster resembling an octopus, which supposedly lurks in Uchiura Bay in Hokkaido. Akubōzu A spirit that lives in the ashes of hearths in Akita Prefecture and Iwate Prefecture and appears when someone plays with the ashes. Akugyo A species of man-eating sea monster that resembles a giant fish, found in the seas near Kibi Province ...
The Island of Giant Insects (Japanese: 巨蟲列島, Hepburn: Kyochū Rettō) is a Japanese manga series written by Yasutaka Fujimi and illustrated by Redice and later by Shu Hirose. It was published online on Akita Shoten 's Champion Cross web platform from October 2014 to May 2018, and on Manga Cross from December 2018 to March 2019.
Skylanders: Giants is a 2012 video game in the Skylanders series and a direct sequel to the 2011 game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. It features the voices of Kevin Michael Richardson , Greg Ellis , Peter Lurie , Steve Blum , Dave Wittenberg , Carlos Alazraqui , Kevin Sorbo , Bobcat Goldthwait , Patrick Seitz and Julie Nathanson .
The island has an area of 592.17 square kilometres (228.64 square miles). [1] It is the largest island of the Seto Inland Sea. As a transit between those two larger islands, Awaji originally means "the road to Awa ", [ 2 ] the historic province bordering the Shikoku side of the Naruto Strait , now part of Tokushima Prefecture .
It is the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Honshu had a population of 104 million as of 2017 [update] , constituting 81.3% of the entire population of Japan, [ 11 ] and mostly concentrated in the coastal areas and plains.
Islas de Gigantes (Spanish: Gigantes Islands lit: Giant Islands) (variously Islas Gigantes, Higantes group, or Gigantes group) is an island chain within the larger Western Visayas archipelago in the Visayan Sea. It is part of the municipality of Carles, Iloilo, Philippines, and the northernmost part of Iloilo province. [1]
Polybotes was one of the Gigantes (), the offspring of Gaia, born from the blood that fell when Uranus was castrated by their son Cronus. [3]According to the mythographer Apollodorus, during the Gigantomachy, the cosmic battle of the Giants with the Olympian gods, Polybotes was crushed under Nisyros, a piece of the island of Kos broken off and thrown by Poseidon: [4]